Mark Jacobson, Simon and Schuster, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4165-6627-4
A lampshade possibly made from the skin of a concentration camp prisoner fitfully depicts the limits of human brutality in this beguiling but unfocused odyssey. When DNA tests proved a lampshade, found in Katrina-ravaged New Orleans, to be made of...
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Mark Jacobson, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $19.95 (356p) ISBN 978-0-87113-396-0
This remarkable first novel combines the manic energy of monster movies and comic books with a serious and sad look at the post-nuclear world. At center stage are two friends. One is Gojiro, a 500-foot-tall lizard who has swollen to his...
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Mark Jacobson, Author Villard Books $23 (320p) ISBN 978-0-679-45656-8
Esquire music columnist Jacobson's boisterous second novel (after Gojiro) takes a baffling but imaginative trip from the soul to outer space and back. Narrator Taylor (""the Face"") Powell, is a movie star fed up with his great looks and...
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Mark Jacobson, Author, Rae Jacobson, Commentaries by . Atlantic Monthly $24 (271p) ISBN 978-0-87113-852-1
American pop culture has decimated a formerly rich civilization and left in its evil, McDonald's/TV/CD–driven wake zombified kids and adults with unrefined tastes. So asserts former Village Voice
writer Jacobson in this self-congratulatory
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Mark Jacobson. Blue Rider, $27 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-16995-3
A notorious conspiracy theorist searches for the hidden plan behind world events and his own existence in this revealing, claustrophobic biography. Journalist Jacobson (The Lampshade) explores the bumpy life of William Cooper, an influential...
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